Ironing-table.



No. 66I,960. Patented Nov. 20, I900.

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IRONING TABLE.

(Application filed Mar. 16, 1900.

(No Model.)

UNTTED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

v STOKLEY D. DILTS, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS,

lRONlNG-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,960, dated November 20, 1900.

Application filed March 16, 1900. serial No. 8.879. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, STOKLEY D. DILTS, of the city of Decatur, county of Macon, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Tables,

. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ironingtables the frames of which are foldable and adjustable and the ironing-boards of which are de tachable from the frames. It is exemplified in the structure hereinafter described, and it is defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a table embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the table turned bottom side up. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the table. Fig. 4 is a detail in plan of the spring-clamp used to detachably connect the ironing-board with the supporting-frame, and Fig. 5 is a detail in elevation of the same.

The ironing-board is shown at 1. At 2 is shown a rack used to adjust the angle of the legs with the board, so as to vary the height of the table. At 3 is shown astrap fastened to the ironing-board near one of its ends and crosswise thereof. At4 are shown lugs on the cross-strap, extending downward therefrom and concaved in their under surfaces. At 5 are shown ends of a loop of spring-wire, which are held between the board and the cross strap and which are extended forward and then bent backward,so as to leave the rounded end 6 of the loop presented backward. The forward extensions of the loop lie close to the board and the rearward extension inclines first away from and then toward the board, so as to form an embracing-surface, which normally lies closer to the board than are the ends of lugs 4. (See Fig. 5.)

The frame consists of two pairs of legs 7 and 10, each of which pairs is braced sidewise in a suitable manner, as shown at 17 in Fig. 3, and is provided with a transverse base, as 9 and 12. A pair of diagonal brace-rods 13 extend from one pair of legs to the other outside such legs, and they have rectangular bends 14 on their ends, which pass inward through the legs and form pivotal connections therewith. Another pair of diagonal brace-rods 15 extend from one pair of legs to the other inside the legs, and they have rectangular bends 16, which pass outward through the legs and form pivotal connections therewith. In this instance brace-rods 13 connect with legs 7, near the lower ends thereof, and extend upward to legs 10, while brace-rods 15 connect with legs 10,near the lower ends thereof, and extend upward to legs 7; but this arrangement may be reversed as well as not. Each brace-rod holds the pivotal points of the legs with which it connects always the same distance apart, and the brace-rods hold both pairs of legs at the same angle with relation to the board, but they have no tendency to keep one pair of legs parallel with the other pair. The rectangular extensions on the brace-rods are preferably threaded and provided with nuts. The pair of legs 7 has a cross-bar 8,which is adapted to engage the notches in rack 2 on the ironing-board, and the pair of legs 10 has a rounded cross-bar 11 on which the lugs 4 of cross-strap 3 rest and under which the springloop 6 extends when the board is attached to the frame. The spring-clamp has sufficient strength to hold the board firmly in connection with cross-rod 11 under ordinary conditions of operation, but the loop 6 may be readily depressed sufficiently to permit the lugs to be moved out of connection with the rod whenever it is desired to separate the board from the supporting-frame.

To lower the board from the position shown in Fig. 1, the end of the board carrying rack 2 is raised until the rack is clear of cross-bar 8 and the crossbar is swung toward legs 10 until the desired inclination is attained, when the rack is lowered into engagement with cross-bar 8. \Vhatever inclination is given to legs 7 by this adjustment is imparted to legs 10, though in a contrary direction, and so the frame stands with its pairs of legs inclined toward each other and the ironingboard is lowered to an extent depending on the inclination of the legs.

By placing one pair of brace-rods inside and the other pair outside the legs there is no interference with free adjusting motion of the braces, and 'the rectangular bends provide cheap, simple, and effective pivots.

I claim 1. In an ironing-table the combination with a supporting-frame having a cross-bar at one end, of an ironing-board, a cross-strap on the board, lugs depending from the cross-strap and adapted to engage the cross-bar of the frame and a spring-clamp on the board having a free end adapted to be passed under the cross-bar, substantially as described.

2. In an ironing-table, the combination with a supporting-frame having a cross-bar at one end, of an ironing-board, a cross-strap on the board, lugs depending from the cross-strap and adapted to engage the crossbar of the frame, and an elastic wire loop held at its ends between the cross-strap and the board with its free end in position to pass under the crossbar, substan tially as described.

3. In an ironing-table, the combination of a supporting-frame composed of two pairs of to engage the other cross-bar, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

STOKLEY D. DILTS.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH G. BIXBY, L. P. GRAHAM. 

